THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 2010 [nasa]
PROBE TAKES DETAILED PHOTO OF ASTEROID ROCK LEFT OVER FROM THE BIRTH OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM (so says humans) [cnn]
If 2001 A Space Odyssey were a religion I would be in church every sunday.
Thats how important I think this movie is.
The link above is one theory on the ending. I disagree with it because, as a commenter noted, it is based on the established 'religious belief' of reincarnation. I believe the ending of the film to be about planes of existence, space within time lapses of being... that events are superimposed on one another in the absence of controlled atmospheres -- through it one can fully understand existing in non existence -- and taking into consideration the theory that the earths orbit/revolutions form gravity, this is therefor likely to control events taking place within a construct of time... one that we all experience on earth. Away from earth however, there are multiple versions of time, space and being --and the monolith is a window into that. I could discuss this movie for hours... my idea of a good time is to do so over a cup of coffee at 10 am on a Saturday.
I read this a while ago but for some reason am sharing it on my blog today. A very interesting article about 2001 A Space Odyssey & The Chelsea Hotel (by Tom Roberge) [ link ]
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Today I took 100 pictures of Oona Moon who is an excellent eater of carrots. I put glasses on her and she seemed to really like looking like a cooler version of rivers cuomo. (see my facebook) Alfie met Oona, who danced to the music playing in the resteraunt where we went for brunch, by way of going from tense legs to noodle legs and back again over and over. She has me so awestruck I should have named her Universe, Space or Galaxy. Moon holds good meaning though... (see below)
Just for fun:
In general relativity, gravitational radiation is generated in situations where the curvature of space time is oscillating, such as is the case with co-orbiting objects. The gravitational radiation emitted by the Solar System is far too small to measure. However, gravitational radiation has been indirectly observed as an energy loss over time in binary pulsar systems such as PSR B1913+16. It is believed that neutron star mergers and black hole formation may create detectable amounts of gravitational radiation. Since gravitational waves are expected to travel at the speed of light, this distance corresponds to a difference in gravitational wave arrival times of up to ten milliseconds. Through the use of triangulation, the difference in arrival times can determine the source of the wave in the sky.
The Moon has had dramatic effects on our planet and the life that inhabits it, researchers believe. The Moon stabilizes Earth's rotation, for example, preventing otherwise dramatic movements of the poles that would fuel climate swings that some scientists figure might have doomed any chance for life to form, let alone evolve.
Biologists speculate that tides, generated mostly by the Moon, would have been a logical place for life to originate. Sea creatures might have then used tidal regions as experimental sites for testing the habitability of land, and therefore as an excuse to develop lungs. Put short, your gilled ancestors might have used the Moon like a gravitational guiding light to the first non-aquatic procreation.
